Thursday, September 16, 2010

Protein Wisdom's Jeff Goldstein commits libel ... again

Protein Wisdom's cowardly Jeff Goldstein, has a history of committing libel.Last night, I was alerted by a friend who is an attorney, that Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom blog has attributed comments to me that I did not make on this post - his post, and mentioned my place of employment and full name. I grabbed a few screenshots to document this. Click to enlarge.

This pathetic coward is not just happy deleting factual comments, he now has resorted to libelous defamation, and he admits it (see comment #79).

Per his method of operation, someone must have made a comment that embarrassed him or that he didn't agree with, and since I've hit the mark so many times at his echo chamber blog, and the paranoid he is, he assumed it was me. I'd love to see the comment he deleted that embarrassed him so much. Of course nothing is below Goldstein, described by a recent commenter (who apparently knows him well) as an "unemployable manbaby" - leader of his minions who are "anonymous ankle-biting cowards." He once said he was going to contact my University since he didn't like my blog comments and has "nothing to lose."

Changing people's comments is nothing new for Goldstein, but then attributing racist comments to myself -by full name, and further committing defamation against my employer, MTSU, is beyond dishonest, it's low-life slimy. Obviously, as he described himself, so low he has "nothing to lose" and continues to beg for money at his blog.

UPDATE III:

Thanks to Serr8d for pointing out this blog in not hosted by wordpress.com. For future reference for those that Goldstein may libel in the future, is appears that ProteinWisdom is redirected through Enom.com to Versaweb.com.

I.P. - 208.66.72.11

These companies have been contacted.

Bottom line about Protein Wisdom, summed up by Patterico, who was similarly libeled:

"...you can’t trust anything written at his site. Which is why I intend never to speak about it again. It is an utterly worthless site that has become nothing but the plaything of the site host, to fool the world about what you said by altering it without notice.

A site with so little integrity is not worth my time, or yours, and I’m sorry I wasted so much time writing about it in recent days. That ends, now."

UPDATE:

Why Jeff Goldstein is a criminal

Colorado revised statutes:

18-13-105. Criminal libel.(1) A person who shall knowingly publish or disseminate, either by written instrument, sign, pictures, or the like, any statement or object tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation or expose the natural defects of one who is alive, and thereby to expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, commits criminal libel.(2) It shall be an affirmative defense that the publication was true, except libels tending to blacken the memory of the dead and libels tending to expose the natural defects of the living.(3) Criminal libel is a class 6 felony.

In Colorado, state law makes criminal libel a felony carrying up to 18 months in prison and a fine up to $100,000 for the first offense. In general, web libel is posting false information about someone that defames them, commonly accusations of criminal acts, marital infidelity, dishonesty... [in Goldstein's case, impersonating William Yelverton and attributing racist comments].

According to this article, if you live on one of the 17 states that enforce criminal libel, you can file to lift the veil on anonymity for someone who defames you and have them arrested on criminal charges.

In Colorado, a man received a a paltry 23 years sentence for "spreading lies on the internet", but some states are getting tougher on libel crimes.

67 comments:

Anonymous
said...

As you've already admitted to sock puppeting Protein Wisdom under different names and we know you've also name jacked others, there is exactly zero reason to believe anything you say.

Also, to pretend that your girlfriend lawyer accidentally happened upon this (and "she" said she was a first time reader) and then informed you is less than credible. Sort of strangely high odds that she randomly decided to check out the site at the exact moment people thought you were trying to cause trouble again, no?

Anyone believing this nonsense should go to Protein Wisdom and ask the regulars about Yelverton's past behavior.

Oh, by the way, William Yelverton has also routinely used others' written material as his own without attribution. You can also ask the regulars at Protein Wisdom about that if you'd like.

It should be noted that in certain circles, William Yelverton is also said to be something of a cad, and a bounder.

There were even a few horrid rumors floating around the better parties I attended last spring that Mr. Yelverton was involved in an improperly amorous relationship with a woman who was already spoken-for.

What say you, William? Will you not defend yourself from these vicious charges of ungentlemanly conduct?

As I had regretfully surmised would be the case, I must take your continued silence as an affirmation that the charges have no small amount of merit to them.

Please consider yourself dis-invited to Mr. Goldstein's famous fall soiree at his manse. I will notify Mr. Goldstein to expect your withdrawl.

I sincerely apologise for the rather harsh tone of this missive. I must would note that this damnable internet brings out the beast in even a well-bred man such as I!

This is breath-taking. It is simply not possible for williamyelverton to be more divorced from reality. This is quite the fanciful scenario he cooked up here, which ignores his repeated bannings, countless sock puppetting, name-jacking and impersonation of others, and overall mendoucheity. That he denies doing so in the very thread which gives rise to him now getting the vapors is priceless.

Protein Wisdom is a classic cowardly site that doesn't welcome inconvenient facts and dissenting opinions. Instead of letting such facts stand on their own merits, they do what wignuts do best - practice denial. Goldstein deletes comments that make his positions look bad because he doesn't have the courage to face facts that make him and the people he supports look foolish. It's as simple as that. He has gathered a legion of lemings that he thinks won't find out out such inconvenient facts if he simply deletes comments from his site. Sorry, but the internet is a public place, and any blog that is public should be just that. If a blogger can't bear the posting of facts on his blog, he is a pathetic coward. Goldstein has proven himself, pathetically, time and time again, and now, in a desparate attempt to hide facts, has committed libel.

1) Jeff has banned you, repeatedly. And yet like the demented stalkery douchenozzle you are, you insist on using sockpoppets and IP anonymizers to waste Jeff's bandwidth with your insipid ramblings. If you don't like Jeff's latest attempt to encourage you to do as you've been asked, whose fault is that?

2)You can't libel the scurrilous.

3)Congratulations! You finally found a way to drive some traffic in your blog. Why don't you go bother Mark Levin and Dan Riehl for a while? That'll pay off gangbusters!

Great to hear the calls of impropriety from the hypoctitical ankle biting anonymous cowards at Protein Wisdom who accuse me of "sockpoppets and IP anonymizers" - which, by the way, unlike libel - which is illegal, is standard practice for many who want to maintain anonymity. Using an 'internet handle' is not impersonation. Willfully changing the words of a person - mentioning full name and place of employment IS impersonation, there is no mistaking that. Asking someone to leave a public blog is like not allowing someone to speak in a public forum. Any self respecting bogger would not hide from facts, but would address them, that is, unless he is a coward. However, Jeff Goldstein has crossed the line from coward to criminal defamation. Libeling a state institution and state employee brings this to a new level - the law is on my side, as are the attorneys for the state institution that he has libeled.

Somehow William, Jeff's comedic parodies of you, don't seem to amount to impersonation either. For one thing, they are quite funny, where you are never. For another, they are literate and well written, again, where you are never. So there is very little chance of the one being mistaken for the other.

And, again, you're amazing stupid. He publicly stated that he wrote the comments! There is absolutely no legal angle here. What you think is the smoking gun is actually proof that he had no intent to deceive.

You're pathetic, you know that? You have a long and documented history of posting under myriad identities to attempt to circumvent you being banned from PW; a "nuclear option" that Jeff virtually never invokes, being not only tolerant of differing opinions and POV's, but of even insulting invective as well.

But, your inane ravings, unreasonable assertions, and just plain sloppy and ill-thought out lying earned you that exclusive status; and yet you still persist in create new sockpuppet identities, that all but the least astute as yourself can see through immediately, or lowering yourself further, if that is possible, to the practice of name-jacking someone elses cognomen.

Why don't you use your actual name, like I, JeffG, and many others do, you pathetic nebbish of a troll?

Oh, and as far as "publishing your place of employment!11!11!eleventy ", long before Jeff ever did many among the commentariat had already done so in numerous threads; which you never chose to challenge, report, or even ask to have removed. Now, I'm no exceedingly hot, and muuuuuuuuuuch younger, attorney, but it seems to me that libel is, well, libel-always, and can't be selectively turned on and off.

In short, you argument is worthless, as usual, and you assertion of libel is baseless, like most of your uninformed, ill-thought-out, and outright fanciful opinions...

You see, your "style", or lack thereof, always shows through. And the moment you add your pablum to any thread, it is immediately recognized to be the droning of William Yelverton, the Tennessee guitar professor better known in the blogosphere as "Willie the racists hill-jack skin-flute player".

You're pathetic, you know that? You have a long and documented history of posting under myriad identities to attempt to circumvent you being banned from PW; a "nuclear option" that Jeff virtually never invokes, being not only tolerant of differing opinions and POV's, but of even insulting invective as well.

But, your inane ravings, unreasonable assertions, and just plain sloppy and ill-thought out lying earned you that exclusive status; and yet you still persist in create new sockpuppet identities, that all but the least astute as yourself can see through immediately, or lowering yourself further, if that is possible, to the practice of name-jacking someone elses cognomen.

Why don't you use your actual name, like I, JeffG, and many others do, you pathetic nebbish of a troll?

Oh, and as far as "publishing your place of employment!11!11!eleventy ", long before Jeff ever did many among the commentariat had already done so in numerous threads; which you never chose to challenge, report, or even ask to have removed. Now, I'm no exceedingly hot, and muuuuuuuuuuch younger, attorney, but it seems to me that libel is, well, libel-always, and can't be selectively turned on and off.

In short, you argument is worthless, as usual, and you assertion of libel is baseless, like most of your uninformed, ill-thought-out, and outright fanciful opinions...

You see, your "style", or lack thereof, always shows through. And the moment you add your pablum to any thread, it is immediately recognized to be the droning of William Yelverton, the Tennessee guitar professor better known in the blogosphere as "Willie the racists hill-jack skin-flute player".

You constantly troll his site using a variety of different sock puppets and IP anonymizers because you're an obsessed internet stalker. He makes fun of you and lets people know that he's doing so with no attempt to deceive. In fact, he openly states in a comment that he was changing them for humorous effect because you wouldn't stop with your craziness.

My Gawd, Villiam, I told you, warned you, years ago, that pw was well out of your reach; your IQ just wasn't sufficient curved to reach their intellectual operational plateau. You just wouldn't listen.

Don't you have anything better to do? There's Markos awaiting your fingering skills; there's TPM and other Democrat dungheaps that specialize in your brand of IHATEBUSH!!! and repetitive link dumps and copypasta, and some might even welcome your...skills.

Wait. Even the lefty online community in Nashville hates your freakin' guts.

Dunno, boy, but whatever you do, think long and hard. Your position of tenured professor might be intact, but the community in which you live, as you so readily point out, isn't to your liking, and if word gets out of your online hatred fests for 'Red State' sorts of folk, for God and Country, for NASCAR, then you might find yourself shunned from even your idea of polite company. And from those donations and grants you solicit from private companies; you know of one particular company that of I speak, don't you ?

Take a good look at my posts. They always refer to reported facts and often contain links to verify. Look at the bullshit written by PW commenters where you find such gems of intelectula discourse as "Democrat dungheaps" "douchnozzlery" ... etc...

As a blogger, I can't imagine being so cowardly and low that I would take a commenters comment, ascribe an identity so as to impersonate someone, mention his place of employment, and then issue false racist statements under the name of someone, defaming the person and a state university.

I wonder what he was drinking while posting under all of those names, including his "girlfriend's" name that he no longer recalls doing so? Must've found an old still under his deck built around the above ground pool.

I would like Willie the racist hilljack skin flute cat serenadert that is scared of brown people that can spell to explain to the world how a website that belongs to someone, and is paid for by someone, is the type of public property that would allow a guest to do whatever they like whenever they like despite repeated and ongoing attempts and notice from the owner that said guest was not welcome on said property.

I think willie the demonic midget sprinter was really just lonely as it had been over 3 weeks since another actual human had commented on his little place where he spits out his bile and venom and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that his high school education prepared him to do nothing beyond strum a ukelele and make vegetarian pie-ay-yah and serenading TEH KITTEH and apparently so desperately needed attention he woke up and decided to show his brown-eye chocolate starfish to the world.

Goldstein has a public blog, he does not own Wordpress nor the internet. He not only violated state statutes, he violated Wordpress blog guidelines for abuse. These are facts and he has admitted to them.

I think it is incredibly ironic, richly so, that a faux academic who claims to honor the 1st Amendment would want to bring the power of a State institution and the legal system on another for utilizing a Constitutional right to free speech. Fascist.

This, I might add, is a repeating pattern of dishonesty for Goldstein. There are numerous examples documented of Goldstein impersonating his commenters and issuing racist statements under their names. We're dealing with a repeat offender who has made the statement that he has "nothing to lose" by doing so.

Have a great day, racist. You apparently have an impenetrable wall of teh stupid built up around you, and are determined to humiliate yourself in a very public manner. I would pity you, but people repeatedly warned you, and you chose to ignore them. Now, run along, go impersonate some people, make up some new sock puppets, do a little gender-bending, and jam your pointy little head back into your rectal cavity. You are smarter that way.

JD, if I had commented under your real name and mentioned your place of employment so as to defame you, yes I would be criminally impersonating you. However, you don't have that status, as you are a cowardly anonymous ankle-biting entity who doesn't have the balls to tell us your real name, and sorry, but "JD" is not a real entity.

I don't think my friend and colleague, Dr. Sidney McPhee, MTSU president would take kindly to this libelous impersonation. MTSU has been proudly and capably led by African American university presidents for the past 16 years, since Dr. James Walker in 1993.

To continue to claim that he seriously attempted to impersonate you is a lie you revealed as untrue with your very own post. It's a lie that you are now knowingly and willfully deciding to continue with.

You are so fucking embarrassing to anyone else living in Tennessee, Villiam. I just noticed...

"...Goldstein's blog is on WordPress..."

You dumb shit, do you see a Wordpress.com blog address? Do you not know Wordpress also provides themes to bloggers who then host their blogs elsewhere?

It's the small things, such as this example of your inattention to detail that proves your unworthiness to communicate at a higher level than you've created for yourself here. You've failed, time and time again, to maintain any good relationships even with your ideological equals; from 'Nashville is Talking' to 'Tennessee Free' to 'Volunteer Voters' and who knows what other forums finally determined you unwelcome?

Since you quote Pat Frey, Patterico, why don't you go over there and spend some time reading and commenting on his blog? See how long you last there. His runs a level or two lower than Jeff's, so perhaps with a booster seat you can fit in.

Protein Wisdom runs the WordPress blogging software, available from WordPress.org and is self-hosted. It is a completely different beast than the Automattic-hosted WordPress.com. Your submission about PW being in violation of WP.com's TOS is idiotic.

As someone else (serr8d?) stated above, please do some basic research before spouting off about that which you know nothing.

Thanks Serrd8, we see that Protein Wisdom is using Enom.com for domain name redirection to versaweb.com. We will continue to investigate and report this illegal activity to the appropriate host and authorities.

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